Table of Contents

About the Author. Dedication.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Alice Digs In.

2. The Vanishing.

3. Rules and Regulations.

4. A Mock Turtle.

5. The Alphabet Cipher.

6. Nonsense From Letters.

7. Serpent!

8. The Hunting.

9. A Little Bill.

10. Rules of Battle.

11. Dream of Money-Bags.

12. Cold, Cold Sea.

13. Cat And Mouse.

14. Misunderstanding.

15. Knots.

16. Man At The Helm.

17. The Landing.

18. A Cunning Conspiracy.

19. The Professor's Song.

20. White Knight.

21. Lobster Quadrille.

22. Birthday Presents.

23. Petty Cash.

24. Hush! Hush!

25. Knave In Chains.

26. Stuff And Nonsense.

27. Alice's Evidence.

28. Magic Watch.

29. A Tangled Tale.

30. White Kid Gloves.

31. Golden Afternoon.

32. Dead Reckoning.

Epilogue.

Bibliography and Sources.

Index.

About the Author

Christine Large continues a line of individualistic Bletchley Park directors. Her career began with a law degree and includes private sector business roles and voluntary work. She has been employed by the National Federation of Women?s Institutes, has been a university lecturer in business studies, a CBI London council member, chaired the governing body of London?s largest state primary school and chaired a national charity.
She helped Bletchley Park as a volunteer for 18 months before being appointed its Director in 1998. Christine?s mother-in-law worked at Bletchley Park during the war and her father-in-law retrieved Allied spies from overseas for Special Operations Executive. Her mission is to build on the codebreaking pioneers? work, transforming the site into a heritage park famed for education and technology innovation.
Christine lives in London and is married with two daughters. Her hobbies include playing the cello and learning Russian.

Reviews

"â?|Large has now cleverly succeeded in bringing the story up-to-dateâ?|" (Friends of Bletchley Park Newsletter, Summer 2003) "â?|a clandestine tale worthy of LaCarrÃâ?|" (Manchester Evening News, 16 August 2003)

"â?|a book that now reveals allâ?|" (Image, September 2003)

"â?|Reading like an action packed thriller, this real life tale tells the story of kidnapâ?|" (Best of British, September 2003)

"â?|with spies and detectives, history and extortion, this story is more astounding then any Bond filmâ?|" (Good Book Guide, September 2003)

"â?|Hijacking Enigma is very readableâ?|" (Sunday Citizen , 24 August 2003)

"â?|real life thrillerâ?|" (Good Book Guide, October 2003)

"â?|a fascinating true-life thrillerâ?|" (Sunday Post (Dundee), 14 September 2003)

"â?|Large tells her story well with the verve of a novelist and the perception of a historianâ?|" (The Good Book Guide, November 2003)

"...Thoroughly recommended..." (Spitfire Society, Journal November 2003)

"...a fascinating story..." (Cryptologia, November 2005)

The hijacking of the Enigma machine and its dramatic return to the glare of the Newsnight programme certainly brought Bletchley Park to the public?s attention in a way that the villain who perpetrated the crime had probably never intended. There are many excellent books and articles and a website covering the various aspects of Bletchley Park?s codebreaking activities and the uses made of its secret intelligence in helping to win the war. Christine Large has now cleverly succeeded in bringing the story up-to-date in Hijacking Enigma by linking codebreaking and the successful police work in recovering Bletchley?s jewel in the crown, the German Secret Service, Abwehr machine. The skills are remarkably similar; determination to crack the problem whatever the odds, lateral thinking and connecting seemingly unrelated evidence, exploiting the psychology of the quarry and waiting for him to make the fatal careless mistake that allows a ?way in?, the art of double cross and above all total commitment to the job and keeping your mouth shut in the knowledge that men?s lives depend on it. Christine Large, the Director of the Bletchley Park Trust, who has herself demonstrated a remarkable commitment to the job and resourcefulness, says that she hopes that the wartime Bletchley ethos might inspire a ?new generation of pathfinders?. The Trust?s efforts and aspirations deserve all the support the public can give and it is to be hoped that the heritage bodies will come together to ensure the long-term future for Bletchley Park that it deserves; this book cannot but help the cause. Mavis Batey, World War II codebreaker at Bletchley Park.

Congratulations, I enjoyed the book enormously. The construction is ingenious and it is pacey and well-written.

Sir Christopher Chataway.

An intriguing book - two intertwined tales of mystery and intrigue.

Adam Hart-Davis, TV presenter and best-selling author of What the Romans Did for Us.

A mystery worthy of the codebreakers of Bletchley Park.

Robert Harris, best selling author of Enigma, Pompeii and Selling Hitler.

An astonishing tale of mystery with more twists than a Jeffrey Archer novel.

Michael Smith, best-selling author of Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park and other works.



With delightful irony, this book combines the fascinating history of Enigma with a modern detective story. Hijacking Enigma gets right under the skin of the investigation, in which the famous Enigma machine was instrumental in its own recovery. I have heard it said many times that ?you don?t get many of these in your career!?, meaning this type of extraordinary, high-profile case, where an intelligent criminal plays a cat-and-mouse game with his prey. The full essence of the police work is vividly captured in the story, which features many unusual characters and events.

Sir Charles Pollard, Chairman of the Justice Research Consortium, and former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police.